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By posing online as two individuals committed to jihad, Sky News gains a disturbing new insight into the extremists' tactics.
Islamic State is now focused on urging British would-be recruits to carry out "lone wolf" attacks in the UK instead of travelling to fight in Syria, Sky News has learned.
Fictional characters created online by Sky with an undercover freelance journalist were sent terror guidebooks by senior jihadists in Syria - including advice on raising funds and making weapons.
And we were told IS already has a number of potential bombers in the UK - some of whom have been trained in Syria and are ready to attack.
By posing on Twitter and in chatrooms as two individuals committed to jihad - one male, one female - we have gained a disturbing new insight into the extremists' tactics.
The chatter never stops. Sometimes within the millions of messages you come across something that shocks.
One jihadist told us that this Saturday's VJ commemorations involving the Queen and the Royal Family were a target.
The online posts by our characters over the past four months attracted the attention of two major players in Islamic State's so-called cyber caliphate.
One of them is Junaid Hussain, a 21-year-old hacker-turned-jihadist from Birmingham, who runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria.
He has been identified by the US Secret Service as a top-five target for elimination by drone strike.
His wife, Sally Jones, a former punk from Chatham, Kent, is also in Syria working alongside Hussain in Raqqa but dealing with female IS-supporting jihadists.
From the start it became clear that IS wants its recruits to attack the UK and not travel to their so-called caliphate.
We can reveal that this is an entirely new tactic by IS - originally they called for volunteers to join them in Syria.
Sending us detailed guidebooks, they urged our fictional characters to form gangs and to create a British Islamic State over a long period.
This strategy is a major departure.
Communicating on encrypted messaging sites, a second conversation started with another of our characters, an 18-year-old girl.
Jones quickly asked our character what she wanted to do in the UK - to cut a head off or blow up a bomb.
Assuring us she would guide us through the making of the bomb, she explained what we would need, directing us to get the material and to show her a receipt with a date.
She was checking to see if we were authentic.
Sensing our character's worries, Jones took an unusual step to reassure us.
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Exclusive: IS Bombers In UK Ready To Attack
By posing online as two individuals committed to jihad, Sky News gains a disturbing new insight into the extremists' tactics.
Islamic State is now focused on urging British would-be recruits to carry out "lone wolf" attacks in the UK instead of travelling to fight in Syria, Sky News has learned.
Fictional characters created online by Sky with an undercover freelance journalist were sent terror guidebooks by senior jihadists in Syria - including advice on raising funds and making weapons.
And we were told IS already has a number of potential bombers in the UK - some of whom have been trained in Syria and are ready to attack.
By posing on Twitter and in chatrooms as two individuals committed to jihad - one male, one female - we have gained a disturbing new insight into the extremists' tactics.
The chatter never stops. Sometimes within the millions of messages you come across something that shocks.
One jihadist told us that this Saturday's VJ commemorations involving the Queen and the Royal Family were a target.
The online posts by our characters over the past four months attracted the attention of two major players in Islamic State's so-called cyber caliphate.
One of them is Junaid Hussain, a 21-year-old hacker-turned-jihadist from Birmingham, who runs the IS information and recruitment arm from Syria.
He has been identified by the US Secret Service as a top-five target for elimination by drone strike.
His wife, Sally Jones, a former punk from Chatham, Kent, is also in Syria working alongside Hussain in Raqqa but dealing with female IS-supporting jihadists.
From the start it became clear that IS wants its recruits to attack the UK and not travel to their so-called caliphate.
We can reveal that this is an entirely new tactic by IS - originally they called for volunteers to join them in Syria.
Sending us detailed guidebooks, they urged our fictional characters to form gangs and to create a British Islamic State over a long period.
This strategy is a major departure.
Communicating on encrypted messaging sites, a second conversation started with another of our characters, an 18-year-old girl.
Jones quickly asked our character what she wanted to do in the UK - to cut a head off or blow up a bomb.
Assuring us she would guide us through the making of the bomb, she explained what we would need, directing us to get the material and to show her a receipt with a date.
She was checking to see if we were authentic.
Sensing our character's worries, Jones took an unusual step to reassure us.
more
Exclusive: IS Bombers In UK Ready To Attack
